Well Jerry, as my family suffered from the Nazi's this is certainly not "a Holocaust". I also do not think this time is any different than the middle ages. We had many more common-folk who wasted their time drinking excessively. I do agree that we are dumbed-down like cattle more than any other age. Wars are used to purge that excess anger over unemployment. The matrix is what it always has been. We had money-lending before; but not as freely given as it is today (which wll have dire consequences). In the past we had to live within our means; today it has been left unchecked and the anger of pulling the free credit will need a war to conter-balance the systems stupidity.